Word: obstetricians
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...skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...
...jury of two women, ten men, Obstetrician Bourne presented his case. The doctor argued: "The law of England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped...
...even more poignant cry for information on this touchy subject (see p. 57) rose in Manhattan last week. At a discussion on marriage, conducted by the New York Province of College Catholic Clubs, a young woman asked: "Is the rhythmic cycle [of infertility] reliable in the average woman?" Replied Obstetrician Frederick Walter Rice: "The rhythmic cycle is the only recourse left to the Catholic. It will be only when physicians can give data about each woman in regard to the cycle that Catholics can live freely within the moral...
Quantities of human blood are lost each year in childbirth. Much of it is blood which obstetricians leave in the placenta by clamping umbilical cords, doing so in the belief that they thereby make the afterbirth easy and complete. This practice "never had any scientific appeal" to Obstetrician James Robert Goodall of Montreal. "Why waste all this valuable material?" he asked. He and his assistants* experimented, found no harm done to mothers by draining placental blood immediately upon birth, found-as he announced in this month's Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics-that it can be stored indefinitely and that...
What agitated the new president of the League, Dr. Richard Norris Pierson, fashionable Manhattan obstetrician, was the need for money. He did not know just how much money the Birth Controllers would need for their year's program. But they already have planned their spring campaign. The slogan: "Planned Parenthood...